The Pearl Cannot Escape

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[Ruthless, ailing man & clear-eyed little actress]

To investigate the truth behind her elder sister's death, Yun Chao, princess of the Xiyan Kingdom, travels to the Great Qi to marry into an alliance with Prince Yu, Xiao Qiting.

She has heard that Prince Yu is gravely ill and won't live much longer. Once he dies, she'll be free again.

However, on her first night in the capital, she sees him kill more than a dozen people without so much as changing his expression.

Yun Chao: ???

Her husband has proud, handsome features and the refined air of a gentleman, but it turns out he's a black-hearted schemer through and through.

"Um, is it still possible to switch husbands now?"

"Too late."

*

Xiao Qiting was born frail and sickly, the most inconsequential, idle prince at court.

He had never wanted his illness to become anyone else's burden, until the little princess chose him.

At first, it was only an act, but little by little, he wanted her to become his real wife.

That day, rain fell softly among the lotus leaves. Beneath the bright red wedding characters, red candles flickered and the wedding curtains swayed.

He held her close, murmuring her name again and again.

Then a sharp pain struck his chest. She held a dagger and smiled sweetly at him.

"You killed my father, didn't you? And you had something to do with my sister's death too?"

Blood ran down her arm and mingled with her wedding dress...

*

Three years later, Yun Chao is hiding in Shu and living a carefree life as an assassin with the Lotus Pavilion.

Then one day, her assignments start getting strangely weird.

One day she's sent to lurk outside a brothel, the next she's told to spend the night by a grave. Unable to take it anymore, Yun Chao sneaks into the Lotus Pavilion master's chamber on a dark and windy night.

Wait, why does this guy look so familiar?

That night, one person who walked straight into a trap was devoured until not a bone remained.

Xiao Qiting gripped her waist in his large hand, his voice seductive. "Run, will you? This time, are you going to murder your husband again? Hmm?"

Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners, more sweetness than angst.

2. The heroine's father and sister were not killed by the hero.

My next novel, The Beloved White Moonlight Only Wants to Survive, is coming soon. Please add it to your pre-reading list!

After waking from a nap, Si Mu found she had transmigrated into a book, becoming the male lead's beloved white moonlight in a story about a substitute lover.

As everyone knows, the beloved white moonlight in a substitute-lover story doesn't survive more than a few chapters. In this book, she dies right at the beginning.

To stay alive, Si Mu decides to call off the engagement and keep her distance from the original male lead.

"We grew up together. How can you just call off our engagement?"

"I'm sorry, but I've fallen in love with someone else!"

"Who? I'll go kill him right now!"

After racking her brain, Si Mu names a minor male character.

She had assumed this barely mentioned character from the original novel was unimportant. Who knew...

One day, Si Mu is cornered against a wall. Before her stands a man in white, elegant and dazzling as the moon.

"Big brother, who are you?"

"I'm the Junior Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, Huo Yunxing. I hear you're in love with me?"

"..."

The Court of Judicial Review? Wasn't that the highest court in the land?

After seeing Huo Yunxing easily drive off the people who came to kill her, Si Mu decides to cling to him for protection.

The Huo clan of Luling is a prestigious family of officials, and their third son, Huo Yunxing, was raised from childhood to be upright and proper, disciplined, courteous, and true to himself.

But that girl from the Si family constantly pesters him, leaving him unable to sit or stand in peace.

Just as he's being teased until he can barely control himself, he catches her flirting and laughing affectionately with her former fiance.

"Hah. Liar."

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